Not everything was fun and games however. At one point, Naima and Keenya made it to one of the designers at the same time. Technically, Naima got there first, and the proper etiquette might have been to let the person who got their first to go first, and the other person would wait. This strategy wasn't good enough for Keenya, and she powered up the stairs past Naima to get to the designer first. It really pissed off Naima, but she was able to hold it in and do her thing after Keenya had finished, or at least until she was ready to move on. At her next designer, Keenya showed she was really out to win. This time, it was Kahlen who had arrived first, and the two girls fought it out to see who would be in the door first. All of those extra meals did Keenya some good, as she was able to muscle her way past Kahlen. All that hard work pushing Kahlen out of the way didn't do much good, as the designer said she "was a bit fleshy".

Most of the girls tried to make a choice between arriving on time and seeing more designers. Although Christina took time to do a five minute go-see with one last designer, she was so rushed it looked like she was uninterested. Despite that, everybody made it back to their meeting point, well, except for Naima. With only several minutes to go before she needed to go back, Naima decided to visit not one, but two other designers on her list, thinking that seeing them face to face was more important than being on time. In some circumstances, you could say that was the case, but in this competition, missing a deadline can be the difference in staying or being eliminated. And although she was 45 minutes later than she was supposed to be, she didn't seem to be penalized, and the designers that met her liked her. Brittany and Keenay were also well liked, and Kahlen was seen likable, but seemed too innocent for some. Not surprising anybody, Christina didn't make a good impression with her personality.

Keenya's hard work ended up working for her, as she won the challenge and a dinner that night with Craig Port. She was able to bring one person, and of course she took Brittany. A limo came to pick them up (an early-nineties mercedes limo, don't they have any new cars in this place? I know they have car theft problems, but shit.) and they were whisked away. They had on a pair of slink black things, Keenya's looking slightly less slinky than the last time she had it on, and made there way to what they thought would be an intimate dinner with one of South Africa's top designers at his home. When they got there, they learned that Craig invited a few friends over, and it was suddenly a fairly big industry shindig, the perfect place to be if you wanted to get some attention from designers.

Both girls wanted to get some attention, but when you are trying to compete with Brittany for attention, you aren't really going to win that often. Brittany is made for these types of situations, and when you saw that it became informal and everybody was boozing it up, she was determined to be the center of it all. Keenya and Brittany have been the best of friends, but Keenya was extremely jealous as the night wore on. She felt that she won the competition, so she should be getting the attention. I say that winning the challenge gets you in the door only, you have to do the rest yourself . On the way home, Brittany and Keenya were going over how much fun they had, when Keenya made her feelings known, in a passive-agressive way, and Brittany asked if Keenya wished she had picked somebody else. It could have been the editing, but Keenya said nothing. Is it the first sign that these two are in store for a breakup? Even Pink Positive couldn't hold it together for the whole time last season.

Posted by J-Unit on May 6, 2005 12:06 AM